History of Missiology Boston University Theology Library’s collection of missionary biographies, reports, sermons and theologies provides a rich resource for the study of missiology. Building on early informal efforts to digitize portions of the collection, the Library participates in the Open Content Alliance and collaborates with the Internet Archive. This portal provides online access biographical […]
Job Opportunity: Work with Jonathan Zittrain as a Research Associate | Berkman Center. This position requires, primarily, the ability to absorb large amounts of written and other media materials from various sources (including but not restricted to: original sources, scholarly articles, news articles/blogs, interviews, databases) in a short amount of time, critically analyze that material […]
Job Details: Postdoctoral Research Associate – Graduate School of Library and Information Science (P1300007). The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is funding a postdoctoral position for up to three years at the University of Illinois. This position will be located at both at the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at the Graduate […]
TLA | 2013 TLA Plenary – Call for Proposals. The emergence of large digitized collections of humanities resources has made it possible to meaningfully address research questions that previously would have taken many lifetimes to answer. However, theater historians have undertaken relatively little of this kind of work. Despite large datasets of digitized theater reviews, […]
“Knowledge is power: information is the fabric of knowledge; the controller of information wields power.” –”Some Laws of Personal Computing,” Byte 1979 (Lewis 191) “If a system is to serve the creative spirit, it must be entirely comprehensible to a single individual…Any barrier that exists between the user and some part of the system will eventually be […]
Of Victorian Interest: CFP: MLA 2014 Victorian Division panels on Victorian Informatics & Victorian Temporalities (3/1/2013; 1/9-12/2014). The Victorian Division seeks abstracts for a panel on Victorian Informatics.What were the properties of information in the Victorian period? Was there a Victorian culture of information? How did Victorians, amass, manage, propagate information? How did ideologies and economies of information […]
Transcriptions. Topics for the Research Slam are welcome to intersect with the above questions or to move in different directions; methods and formats might include: media experiments with big data, big image archives, and web scraping computer-aided transformations and deformations of texts and media objects inventive engagements with big data and distant reading techniques experiments […]
Visualizing the Classics – Anvil Academic. Anvil Academic and Dickinson College Commentaries announce the availability of a $1,000 prize for the best scholarly visualization of data in the field of classical studies submitted during 2013. Two runners-up will be awarded prizes of $500 each. Submissions must include: one or more visual representations of data that involves some linguistic […]
Free access to all Cambridge Journals content from 2012 « CJO « Cambridge Journals Blog. From 22nd January – 5th March, all Cambridge Journals content published in 2012 will be available for free on CJO. All you have to do is register. There’s a lot you can do in 6 weeks; it’s long enough to watch the […]
Guide to the Paper Dolls Collection mid 19th century. The dolls in this collection appear to date from the mid-19th century. Their exact date and place of origin are unknown. The first Western paper dolls appeared in 18th century Paris during the reign of Louis XV. Several sources assert their existence in 9th century Japan. […]
